PTDI set tp rehire workers who passed reselection test<\/p>\n
Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung, West Java<\/p>\n
State-owned aircraft maker PT Dirgantara (PTDI) announced on
\nFriday the results of a reselection test the company had held
\nfrom Sept. 23 to Oct. 3 in order to rehire employees of good
\ncaliber.<\/p>\n
Edwin Sudarmo, the president director of PTDI, said 4,957
\nemployees had passed the test, which was executed by human
\nresource consultant PT Perso Data, and only 100 employees failed
\ndue to either low intelligence quotient (IQ) or crime-related
\nconcerns.<\/p>\n
However, Edwin said the company would rehire only 3,400
\nemployees in line with its core business needs, and the remaining
\nemployees would be placed with other subsidiaries of PT DI.<\/p>\n
\"In principle, the company is honoring employees who were
\nwilling to take part in the reselection test and rejoin the
\ncompany,\" Edwin told a press conference here.<\/p>\n
He said the company would immediately rehire those who passed
\nthe test and place them in positions befitting their professional
\nqualifications.<\/p>\n
The company held the reselection test after initially
\nsuspending 9,647 of its more that 12,000 employees in July due to
\nfinancial problems. It also fired 3,900 workers, some of whom had
\ninitially been suspended.<\/p>\n
At least 5,057 of the suspended 9,647 employees took part in
\nthe reselection test.<\/p>\n
Edwin said the company had allocated Rp 130 billion (US$16.25
\nmillion) for the disbursement of severance pay to the dismissed
\nemployees, who were let go after they failed to register for the
\nreselection test.<\/p>\n
However, general secretary of the PTDI's Workers Communication
\nForum AM Bone said the employees would reject the severance pay,
\nsaying it was not enough.<\/p>\n
\"The severance pay does not comply with a ministerial decree
\nsigned by the minister of manpower and transmigration,
\nstipulating that employees be given severance pay equaling two to
\n13 times the monthly take home pay. We reject the company's
\ndecision to give employees only one month take home pay in
\nseverance pay,\" he said.<\/p>\n
In response to the statement, PTDI director for general
\naffairs Muhammad Nuril Fuad said the severance pay was in
\naccordance with Law No. 13\/2003 on manpower and did not violate
\nany regulations.<\/p>\n
Fuad expected the company's decision to fire employees would
\nbe backed by a P4B worker tripartite mediation body, which was
\nscheduled to issue a decision shortly. He said he hoped the body
\nwould issue the letter before November, explaining that: \"The
\ncompany can only pay the dismissed employees until December this
\nyear.\"<\/p>",
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